William D. Eggers, director of Public Sector Research at New York City-based Deloitte Services LP stated, “Our analysis demonstrates that IoT technology could provide data to police departments to enable them to better predict and prevent spikes in violent crime.”

The report focuses on three areas to promote the positive impact IoT could have on government.

Public Safety – utilizing IoT to more quickly aggregate and analyze information about an event

Public Water Utilities – creating a more cohesive picture of highly fragmented water supply systems to better manage the multiple issues from well to tap

According to Eggers, “Public sector organizations that adopt a wait-and-see attitude toward the IoT are unlikely to develop the expertise or engender the trust needed to effectively and efficiently deliver services in this new reality and to reassure citizens concerned about how this new technology will affect them.”

OneWindow in the Skies

Need to pull together your Office 365 components? Portal Solutions may have the Intranet-as-a-Service solution for you.

The company recently released OneWindow Workplace, a turnkey intranet that officials state “integrates the components of the Office 365 platform into a single digital window.”

Company officials claim OneWindow Workplace was “five years in the making” and will “connect the disconnected Office 365 components into an intuitive, modern, mobile-friendly intranet.”

According to officials, the platform will enable users to access all of the components of Office 365 including SharePoint Online, Yammer, Skype for Business, OneDrive for Business and Office Groups.

Daniel Cohen-Dumani, CEO and Founder of Portal Solutions, based in Rockville, Md., called it “the most common scenarios and experiences in a ready-to-go, yet powerful social intranet solution.”

Be Prepared

We all know Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong will.” And the Girl and Boy Scout’s motto: “Be Prepared.”

According to a survey by Fonality, less than half of workers in business communications have the necessary technology to deal with disruptions in service that could result in closed or inaccessible offices.

Be ready to work remotely by setting up the option to softphones through web browsers or apps on mobile devices.

Test your readiness with a free quiz. Is your business prepared to keep employees and customers connected? Take Fonality's Disaster Preparedness Quiz .

Just don’t forget to stock up on Thin Mints and Samoas.

A Remarketable Lifecycle

Lifecycle engagement platform Localytics recently released its new Remarketing product, which, according to officials “enables marketers to reach their users outside of the app experience with personalized advertisements.”